A Man for All Seasons Themes
Friendship
In A Man for All Seasons, friendship is more of an obstacle than a boon. After he's charged with high treason, Thomas More can't take comfort in his friends because his friends are in favor of More...
Justice and Judgment
Another way of titling this theme might've been "Injustice." Thomas More is martyred by the mechanisms of so-called justice at work in A Man for All Seasons… but that justice ain't particularly j...
Marriage
A Man for All Seasons doesn't deal with marriage in a domestic way, but it's super concerned with marriage in a political way, and the action of the movie is set in motion by the marriage that King...
Power
Kanye West once asked, "You got the power to let power go?" Thomas More would be able to say "yes" to that question. Cromwell, Rich, and Henry VIII probably would not be able to. More doesn't mind...
Principles
If you did a Google search for A Man for All Seasons + principles, you'd get a zillion hits. That's because Thomas More loves principles. They're his bread and butter, his currency, his jam. In fac...
Religion
Religion is at the heart of A Man for All Seasons: Basically, Thomas More doesn't want to change his religion or betray it or compromise on it, and virtually everyone else wants him to. They end up...